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“Well... the thing is... I don't actually think I care about English literature. I don't want to do it at university."

Aled looked startled. "Don't you?"

"I'm not sure I want to go at all."

"But... that was -That was what you cared about more than anything."

"Only because I thought I had to." I said. "And because I was good at it. I thought that was the only was I was going to have a good life. But... that's wrong.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“It took quite a lot of effort not to say sorry for saying sorry.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“Family means nothing,” she said, and I knew she believed it. “You have no obligation to love your family. It wasn’t your choice to be born.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“Light glinted off a bright yellow racquet as the stranger took a swing, and Neil was going too fast to stop. Wood slammed into his gut hard enough to crush his lungs into his spine. He didn't remember falling, but suddenly he was on his hands and knees, scrabbling ineffectually at the floor as he tried to breathe. He'd puke if he could only manage that first gasp, but his body refused to cooperate.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court